If your plan involves continuing in real estate investing and you wanted to sell so you could buy a better producing piece of investment real estate then the 1031 would accomplish the same thing. 

I bet that this IS how it was reported.

NY is bad on that end .So I bet the pro note buyers could price that better.. than someone like me.

They won't take on your case if they aren't 100% certain they will be successful, so there's very little risk involved. 

But I think there's also a related party issue with the family all being involved. 

All that being said, I think it's dangerous to assume nothing will happen - better to get involved in opposing this idea than to be surprised that it passed.

I got involved with a group that meets weekly by phone after buying the intention journal that BP put out at the end of last year. 

Looking forward to getting more involved with Bigger Pockets as time goes on!

A lot of newbies but there are also people that are pretty heavily involved in real estate investing.

I wonder if they were saying it costs about 10k for the materials to "print" the exterior walls or something, not counting the labor, overhead and machinery involved to build those walls...Not even counting the foundation, roof, utilities, trim, partition walls, doors, paint, etc.